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Distribution: Slackware 14 is Main OpSys on Main PC, 2ndary are OpenSuSe 13 and SolydK

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This thread title is a bit misleading as was the article. It showed 10% of Americans with email responded with such ignorance. I can only imagine what the actual percentage numbers are that would include those that won't get near a computer. Apparently, the survey team was at a loss to find any representatives from The Pony Express.

It's always a mistake to rely on internet polls which use voluntary responders. Only those who want to do the poll give answers, and those answers can be skewed. If I had seen and responded to that poll, with those choices, I might well have been tempted to select the most outlandish choices just for giggles. And I'd be willing to bet that a generous percentage of the responders did just that.

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Originally Posted by sgosnell

It's always a mistake to rely on internet polls which use voluntary responders. Only those who want to do the poll give answers, and those answers can be skewed. If I had seen and responded to that poll, with those choices, I might well have been tempted to select the most outlandish choices just for giggles. And I'd be willing to bet that a generous percentage of the responders did just that.

It seems to me the key word there is "rely" as regards weighting. I'm confidant studies have been made that allow for what percentages are likely to answer dishonestly for giggles, and have algorithms to account for some of that. In this case, as the previous poster pointed out there isn't a compelling reason for the average technology user to know what HTML stands for. OTOH more should recognize it is NOT an STD, but even here I'm still betting the actual percentage of the populace that doesn't know what HTML stands for is way higher than 10%.

Maybe my viewpoint is skewed but I am sadly amazed at how many of the people I see when working in an office workstation environment don't even know what "right-click" means.

Not sure a person would need to know what hypertext markup language is. Very little call for one to use it just to answer an email.

Of course, the funny thing about this is that most people actually write their emails in HTML-mode, without even realizing it. Seems to be the default setting in most email clients. Not sure whether this is the case with webmail (gmail, yahoo, etc.), as I don't use webmail.

I think you meant PCV valve, Positive Crankcase Ventilation, since PVC is Poly Vinyl Chloride and might melt if near an exhaust port. :P although I suspect you did that on purpose for the irony and devious fun of it